Earthquake Strikes Off Southern Mexico, Killed 42.
he US Geological Survey reported the earthquake's magnitude as 8.1, President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday it was 8.2, making it the largest in Mexico in 100 years.
A major earthquake off the southern coast of Mexico killed at least 32 people late on Thursday authorities said, with the president saying it was the biggest in a century to hit the country.
He also said it was bigger than the one in 1985 when thousands were killed in four Mexican states.
He also said it was bigger than the one in 1985 when thousands were killed in four Mexican states.
he US Geological Survey reported the earthquake's magnitude as 8.1, President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday it was 8.2, making it the largest in Mexico in 100 years.
Some of the worst initial reports came from the town of Juchitan in Oaxaca state, where sections of the town hall, a hotel, a bar and other buildings were reduced to rubble
Alejandro Murat, the state governor, said 23 deaths were registered in Oaxaca, 17 of them in Juchitan.
| Chiapas Governor Manuel Velasco said that three people were killed in San Cristobal, including two women who died when a house and a wall collapsed. He called on people living near the coast to leave their houses as a protective measure. |
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